Long awaited ebook on the Mauser C96

Just a few words to let you know that we have published a new Ebook on the German Mauser C96 pistol.

The title is : The Mauser C96 Explained

We are sure that the content will be appreciated either by collectors and shooters as beside historic data, a great deal was devoted to the mechanic of the pistol, which is often overlooked in classic books on the subject.

Two technical animated sequences are included with a host of other unpublished documents.

Technical description of the Mauser C96
- The Mauser C96 pistol consists of four main parts
- The barrel and extension
- The magazine well
- When the bolt is drawn rearwards with a empty magazine
- The rear and front sight
- The bolt stop
- The barrel extension
- The bolt
- The receiver
- The lock sub-frame

Operation of the Mauser C96
- A "prop-up" type of locking
- Close-up animated sequence
- Full size animated sequence
- Hammer and sear relation
- Disconnecting work of the forward mainspring plunger
- Locking and unlocking of the bolt
- The bolt's rear travel
- Disconnection in early models
- The ejector

The safety of the Mauser C96
- Long type safety lever on early models
- Late safety of the first type
- Late safety of the second type or "NS" safety
- Hammer-operated safety lever
- Universal safety
- Model 1902 safety prototype

Prototypes and pre-production Models
- A working prototype materialized by the summer of 1894
- German patent (No. 90430)
- Six-shot and a twenty-shot model
- The final stage for mass production
- The spur hammer replaced by a "Cone Hammer"
- The twenty-shot version
- An experimental 6 mm cartridge
- 1896 prototype of a ten-shot carbine

Mauser C96 early Models
- Last minute changes before the mass production launch
- Introduction of the two locking lugs
- Improvement of the lock sub-frame
- The mainspring front plunger
- Minor changes
- From about the serial number 360 onward

Post-War 1920 Reworks and 1930 Model
- 1920 Rework 10-shot
- Under the new German Republic of Weimar
- Mauser pistols out of Germany
- French Gendarmerie
- The long barreled "Bolo"
- Post War regular 10-shot production
- Post War special and experimental models
- Early 1930 models
- The new "Universal Safety"
- 1930 model (711) with the frame for the selective fire model

How the Mauser C96 "Schnellfeuer" works
- The lock frame of the "Schnellfeuer"
- How act the selecting-fire lever
- The second sear
- The articulated member of the trigger
- A specific area was milled out in the barrel extension
- To render the full automatic option inoperative for ever